Re: Question about Romlangs/CeltiConlangs
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 21, 2002, 10:34 |
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At 18:49 2002-08-19 -0700, Padraic Brown wrote:
>Il substratum principal le cante Kerno yst ymbasoes en
I understand _cante_ means "language", but what is its etymology?
I ask because I find Rumiyaan _lengaj_ too bland...
At 11:51 2002-08-20 +0100, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
>That's interesting. I'm not aware of the Latin genitive surviving in any other
>Romance language.
It does IIRC exist vestigially in Rumanian.
At 13:58 2002-08-20 +0200, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> > Aha, my all-time favourite! VSO really feels nice, eh? It used it in
> > Hattic,
> > too, and I don't regret that at all!
> >
>
>Don't I agree!!! VSO is also my favourite word order (I try to use it as much
>as possible ;))) ).
Sohlob /sQ"KQb_0/ also has VSO as basic word order...
One verb to rule them all and in the sentence bind them! ;-)
At 11:09 2002-08-20 -0400, Steg Belsky wrote:
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>I may change |hu-| to |ha-|; it's similar enough that i'm sure it could
>have been completely absorbed by the Hebrew definite article instead of
>just acting like it.
>
What's the definite form like in Aramaic? Possibly something more
convincingly Romance could be created out of it? The idea of Roance
preserving Latin /h/ nags the hell out of me!
/BP 8^)>
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